{"id":8025,"date":"2017-08-30T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:12:55","slug":"for-low-income-drug-users-medi-cal-offers-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8025","title":{"rendered":"For Low-Income Drug Users, Medi-Cal Offers A Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Breann Johnson stopped using heroin on Mother\u2019s Day this year, determined to end her 13-year addiction. Days later, she began three months of residential treatment in Riverside, Calif. \u2014 all paid for by California\u2019s Medicaid program. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/for-low-income-drug-users-medi-cal-offers-a-fresh-start\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=55794041&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_IXDTf97T-vo4UfXi8j3d49OeiXEYqcvxCxzoc5BeHfiJh9sSqd2NmHOw27-iVFhmSYaEB8cX1qm6N23fRokmyokej4g&amp;_hsmi=55794041\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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